The Ghost Writer: A Well-Tempered Triumph... Marvellously Controlled... Mercilessly Compact [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0099477572 ISBN 13: 9780099477570

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2025

Riassunto

Quando il talentuoso giovane scrittore Nathan Zuckerman compie il suo pellegrinaggio per sedersi ai piedi del suo eroe, il solitario maestro della letteratura americana, EI Lonoff, si ritrova presto invischiato nella vita domestica del grande scrittore ebreo, con tutta la sua complessità, artificio e spinta verso la verità artistica. Mentre Nathan siede in una conversazione imbarazzante e senza fiato con il suo idolo, uno scorcio di una bellezza dai capelli scuri attraverso una porta che si chiude lo lascia barcollante. Presto apprende che la visione affascinante è Amy Bellette, ma la sua posizione nella famiglia Lonoff - studentessa? amante? - rimane allettantemente poco chiara. Durante una cena turbata e confusa, Nathan raccoglie frammenti dell'inquietante background ebraico di Amy e inizia a trarre le sue fantastiche conclusioni.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.

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When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099477572
• ISBN 13: 9780099477570
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia